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10. All kinds of seals travel together, but I never saw a school of 

 seals of one age or sex. 



11. I have often seen seals in schools, but never to such an extent as 

 this year. I account for this by the fact that I saw a great many more 

 seals this year than on any previous year both along the coast and in 

 Behring Sea. 



12. Both on the coast and in Behring Sea I secured about as many 

 female seals as male seals. 



13. Last year we were for a few days a-head of the seals, and before 

 going back we killed about 150 male seals without seeing one female. 



14. We secured as good a price for seal-skins taken in August as we 

 did for those taken in the spring. I never heard that the far was not 

 so good in the summer. 



15. It is much easier to secure seals when they are alone than when 

 they are in bunches. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) John Townsend. 



Signed and declared by the said John Townsend before me, the Under- 

 signed, a Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising 

 at the city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 20th 

 day of October, A. d. 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) Arthur L. Beltea, 



A Notary Public in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



Declaration of Charles J. Harris. 



Dominion of Canada, 



Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria, 



I, Charles J. Harris, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, master mariner do solemnly and sincerely state and 

 declare as follows : 



1. That some time last winter 1 appeared before Mr. Milne, the Col- 

 lector of Customs for the port of Victoria, British Columbia, and at his 

 request gave him my ideas concerning certain facts connected with seal 

 life. 



2. That I sailed on a sealing and fishing voyage to the North Pacific 

 Ocean this year as master of the schooner " Mary Taylor," going first 

 as far south as Cape Blanco, and then keeping with the seals as much 

 as possible until we arrived at Kadiak Island. 



3. That I have been out in sealing-vessels for four years, each year 

 being on a good vessel, and having good hunters on board. That dur- 

 ing that period the vessels that I was on board did as well or better 

 than the average vessel. 



4. This year I saw a great many more seals than ever before, and this 

 was the experience of nearly every sealer with whom I have spoken. 



5. That the total catch of the schooner "Mary Taylor" for the present 



year was 942 seals, and more than one-lialf of which were males. 

 61 6. We secured quite a number of barren cows this year; by a 



barren cow I mean a female seal that has no young one in her 

 womb. 



7. I have every year found seals in schools 3 they are frequently seen 

 in schools off the Columbia Eiver. 



